Here’s a brief but excellent summary of the SCO vs Linux debacle, including speculation as to the ending.. (via Dave)
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Travel Insurance, and last minute stuff!
Getting travel insurance is a pain. It’s my own fault really as I didn’t go about getting it earlier. bah!
It’s nigh on impossible to buy insurance from most travel shops in Cork. You have to have booked a flight/holiday with them as well. One shop was willing to sell me insurance, but then they discovered their internet connection was down so they couldn’t order it online. I offered to get them up and running again but..
Eventually, after queueing for about half an hour in various shops I tried USIT. It was full of students looking for J1 visas and that took another hour. Thankfully I had Stunt Car Racer on the 7650 to keep me occupied!
The VHI were no help. Their Global product costs from €2,000 to €4,000 for the 3 months. Their Plan B only covers me up to $65,000 which isn’t much in the USA.
Everything’s sorted now, met up with Ruairi and Louise. Congrats to the two of you! The ring is lovely! Bumped into Peter Flynn too. We must start the CorkLUG meets again when I get back!
Now to pack..
Holidays
Barry’s off to the Monaco Grand Prix! Well he should be smiling, lucky devil!
Mozilla Firebird+xft
Builds of Mozilla Firebird are available here, built with xft support for anti-aliased fonts.
He has builds for RH8+9, Slackware 9, Debian Unstable, and Suse. Great!
Chicago Info
Hmm, must make a “Travel” category.
Thanks Darren for the following links, I’m putting them here as a reference when I’m stuck using a net cafe next week:
- Accommodation
- O’Hare Transportation
- Other
I’m travelling on Sunday, have a week to find an apartment. Looking forward to it now!
#1 – check your input
Never trust the data entered by your users. hehe.
PHP – oo stuff
BDKR has a rant here about OO in PHP. I agree with some of what he says. There’s lots of bad code and design out there (I can’t promise to be perfect either!) but that permeates functional and procedural programming too.
I happen to like working with objects and structuring code in that way. It was a hell of a thing to get used to in college though, Before that I had done a lot of work coding in ASM on the C64. Actually having structures to work with was a real boon!
On a related topic, John mentioned a ObjectView, a PDF magazine about OO for developers. May take a look at it later.
Thanks Dave
PHP 4.3.2 is out
A new release of PHP is out today. It looks like a required update with a HUGE amount of other bug fixes!
Update! I upgraded 2 servers. One with Apache 1.3.27, php_accelerator went fine, but the other with mod_ssl, mod_gzip and php_accelerator refused to work. Every request resulted in a seg fault. I compiled PHP with mm support for mod_ssl (is that necessary?) but haven’t got time to track down where the crash occurs. (I tried disabling both mod_gzip and php_accelerator with no luck)
I’ll give it another go later.
I just want masquerading! Help!
This is invaluable when your gateway server crashes and it’s been a *long* time since it was last rebooted. It always happens while you’re sick too..